4 Melodies

Pitch in Swedish is an enormously important part of the

accent, both in the language itself and in an accent inEnglish. It has a much wider pitch range than theAustralian Dialect, because the important words inphrases are highlighted with tonal emphasis, or pitchchanges.

Rhythm

very musical lilt

stress is random

There is a characteristic tonal pattern in Swedish; the

compound falling tone. In a phrase, beats are upwardlyinflected and begin on a note lower than that of thesteady rhythm, changing pitch creates musicalityprevious beat. This gives Swedish its highlycharacteristic sing-song qualities. Repetitive risingemphasis often on first syllable + often stress certain vowels to change meaning,inflection is essential to the accent, and must always bepresent, even if only barely suggested.instead of words as we dovowels lengthened and given umlaut tone

1 Swedish/SwedenSwedish is a North Germanic language, spoken natively by about 9 million peoplepredominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standingwith Finnish.It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.Along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse,the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the VikingEra.Today, Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy, withthe Monarch as the head of state.Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal healthcare and tertiary education for its citizens